LEWISTON — Lewiston High School is headed back to the Eastern Maine girls’ hockey final, though it took nearly 72 hours longer than anticipated. The defending regional champions were the last team to play its first playoff game of the year following scheduling conflicts and building availability that pushed its regularly scheduled Friday game back […]
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As storm rages, closing is not an option for L.L. Bean
FREEPORT — Most of Freeport’s Main Street, like the rest of Maine, battened down the hatches overnight Monday in preparation for the Great Blizzard of This Week, Juno, or whatever name forecasters aspiring to be witty have assigned to the latest storm. Outlet stores, boutiques and even Bow Street Market, where Freeport residents go for […]
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Girls’ basketball: Poland stymies Freeport
FREEPORT — For four quarters Tuesday, the winless Freeport High School girls basketball team attacked the Poland Knights with a ferocity not shown this year by Mike Hart’s Falcons. The Knights felt like they escaped with a hard-fought 36-27 Western Maine Conference win. “Escape is the right word,” said Poland coach Mike Susi, whose Knights […]
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Falmouth, Freeport break-ins could be work of traveling gang
FALMOUTH — A series of vehicle break-ins in Falmouth and Freeport have police investigating a possible connection to a national string of similar crimes. The forced vehicle entries at Foreside Fitness on Route 1 in Falmouth and at the Casco Bay Regional YMCA on Old South Freeport Road in Freeport occurred on Dec. 18. The […]
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Girls’ Hockey: Blue Devils overcome slow start, top Clippers
Five minutes later, the Blue Devils asserted themselves to the tune of four goals and turned a close game into a rout. Corinne Leberge, Jordan Mynahan and Allison Frechette all scored twice and Lewiston overcame a slow start in a 7-0 victory over Yarmouth/Freeport/Gray-New Gloucester on Wednesday at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. “We were just […]
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The Boot: Derek Jeter, the Durham connection and sideways slippage
Some little-known trivia behind L.L. Bean’s most wanted Christmas gift They’re as Maine as mud season and moose, as Stephen King and Red’s Eats, as dee-ah and “The Way Life Should Be,” and L.L.Bean can’t make ’em fast enough. The company expects to sell 450,000 pairs of its Bean boots in 2014, according to L.L.Bean […]
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Pour-your-own Europub coming to Freeport
FREEPORT — To have a true European dining experience you usually have to be in Europe. Next year, it’ll mean you only have to be in Freeport. Stirling and Mull, a European-themed gastropub, is expected to have a “soft” opening in March and a grand opening on the Fourth of July. Husband and wife Ed […]
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Ebola nurse, boyfriend moving to Freeport
FORT KENT (AP) — An Ebola nurse who fought quarantines in New Jersey and Maine says she’s going to stay in southern Maine while she decides what to do next with her life. Monday marked the 21st day since Kaci Hickox’s last exposure to an Ebola patient. On Tuesday, she’ll be freed from daily monitoring. […]
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Freeport narrowly votes to stay in RSU 5 with Durham, Pownal
FREEPORT — The town voted 2,228 to 2,152 Tuesday to stay in Regional School Unit 5. The 76-vote margin means Freeport will continue the school district consolidation with Durham and Pownal that took effect in 2009. A group called Moving Freeport Forward filed a withdrawal petition in October 2013. Freeport voted 953-768 last December to […]
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Historic Lincoln Canoe and Kayak decides to move from Maine to Massachusetts
Lincoln Canoe and Kayak in Freeport has decided to move to Massachusetts, citing a tough retail market for its boats and the chance to share space with another manufacturer in the town of Amesbury, Mass. Mainebiz reported the company’s owner, Marc Bourgoin, said the decision came after months of deliberation. He and his brother purchased […]